Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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I steal a glance when no one is looking. Especially at his neck, when he turns to say something to my mother. That slender neck, with its air of determination, brisk and bold…
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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
